SHERIFF SUES PIONS

March 27, 2013

By

LAURA CARPENTER

Linda Pion escorts her son, Roger, out of the Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport last summer after Roger was released on bail. File photo: Christopher Roy

NEWPORT â€“ The Orleans County Sheriff's Department filed suit against Roger Pion and his parents for damage sustained when Roger destroyed the sheriffâ€™s Â departmentâ€™s property.
Roger Pion, 34, is accused of using his parents red Case MX255 tractor to drive through town to the sheriffâ€™s department parking area on the Derby Road and drove over the top of seven vehicles, crushing and destroying the cruisers, a van and equipment inside.
Pion then left the scene in the tractor, with deputies pursuing by foot and in commandeered vehicles. Pion was subsequently stopped on the Causeway in Newport and ordered off the tractor at gun point by law enforcement officers.
After a number of hearings, Pion was found incompetent to stand trial by a judge and hospitalized. The criminal case was not dismissed.

For more of this story, see Wednesday's edition of The Newport Daily Express for March 27, 2013.